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ET deals: Lenovo Yoga 8 and Yoga 10 Android tablets starting at $250 November 6, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Taking inspiration from their award-winning Yoga ultrabooks, Lenovo’s new Yoga tablet has a few novel advancements and a battery life that sounds ridiculous. The Yoga 8 will run you $249 after coupon, while the Yoga 10 starts at $299. These are right in the middle of the current price range of Android tablets have some nice features to separate themselves from the pack.
ET deals: $300 off loaded Dell XPS 8700 Haswell PC November 5, 2013 at 6:00 pm
While most of our top deals lately have been focused on leftover 2012 stock, our deal hunters have come across quite a discount on not only a new 2013 model, but a fully-loaded one at that. This XPS 8700 from Dell comes with just about every possible option box checked and gets a massive $300…
The complex and important science of measuring the power of lasers November 5, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Accurately measuring the power in a laser beam is a difficult proposition. A collaboration of researchers from NIST and Colorado-based Scientech has recently a new way to measure power for this kind of high energy laser. The solution they say, is simply to weigh it.
Beyond 7nm and silicon: The first III-V CMOS wafers roll off production lines November 5, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Imec, perhaps the world’s top semiconductor research center, has created the first monolithic III-V CMOS transistors on 300mm silicon wafers. With current silicon-based transistors hitting a wall at around 14nm, this accomplishment is probably the biggest step towards CMOS scaling down to 7nm and below.
Nikon Df: Retro DSLR packed with full-frame performance November 5, 2013 at 11:15 am
As smartphone cameras push DSLRs into a smaller corner of the market, Nikon has joined other camera makers by introducing a retro-design to take advantage of those still passionate about their cameras.
Intel’s 14nm Broadwell GPU takes shape, indicates major improvements over Haswell November 5, 2013 at 10:21 am
Ahead of its 2014 launch, Intel has started open-sourcing the Linux driver for Broadwell’s GPU. Broadwell is the 14nm die shrink of Intel’s Haswell microarchitecture, and while the CPU side of things isn’t expected to change much, Broadwell’s GPU looks like it will be a broad (!) and significant reworking of the Intel HD 5000-series (Iris) GPU found in Haswell.
A look inside Valve’s first Steam Machine November 5, 2013 at 9:55 am
300 lucky beta testers have started to receive their kits and (beyond being a free computer) it could give fans some insight into just what an average Steam Machine might look like. More importantly, this hardware release has led to more specific information about SteamOS and the software side of things.
Crimson Tide: AMD’s R9 290 kicks the legs out from under Nvidia – again November 5, 2013 at 12:01 am
AMD’s R9 290 drops today, and does for the $400 price point what the R9 290X just did at $550 — namely, sweeps it. Nvidia will have a hard time answering these products.
ET deals: $750 off loaded Dell XPS 15 Core i7 1080p ultrabook November 4, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Today we found this XPS 15 premium ultrabook loaded to the max with a massive $750 savings. There is literally no option box left un-checked on this model.It is powered by a third-gen quad-core Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, a 750GB hard drive, 32GB mSATA SSD, and a 2GB GeFore GT 640M graphics card.…
How to design a gamepad: A look at Valve’s Steam Controller prototypes November 4, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Whether or not Valve’s Steam Machine changes the way we play PC games, the box is more or less a traditional PC that’s about the size of a large game console. The Steam Controller, however, is anything but traditional, as it removes analog sticks in place of circular touchpads and adds a Wii U-style touch screen in the center for good measure. All of the prototypes Valve created on the way to the Steam Controller are even weirder than the final product itself.
